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Gdb Build Improvements, master branch (2019.10.25.)

Attila Krasznahorkay requested to merge akraszna/atlasexternals:GdbImprovements-master-20191025 into master

Made some general improvements in how Gdb is built.

  • The build configuration is now done through a configure.sh script, which is created during the CMake configuration from a configure.sh.in file.
  • Added a patch sloten/borrowed from CMSSW for allowing us to forcefully tell the Gdb build not to try to use makeinfo during the build.
  • Taught the CMake configuration of Gdb how to look for the makeinfo executable, and what it should do when it does and doesn't find it.

This is all to make it possible to build our projects without the texinfo package, as (partly) discussed in ATLINFR-3233.

Also tagging @ssnyder, as some of this code was written/last updated by him.

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